Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-25
FLOOD TIDE.
The First Swell Of the Great Boom
has Reached the Young
Giant of Texas.
Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Be-
ing Expended by Men OF Foresight
in anu Near Fort Worth.
West Fort Worth-syIvanIa Additfon-An
Immense Manufacturing Enterprise.
Beautiful Parks-Stoam Street Cars.

of Fort Worth in the past. Ten years ago
a struggling hamlet, to-day mighty city,
with the foundations laid deep and strong
on the adamantine rocks of far reaching
commerce on which to build the only
metropolis of North Texas. The thou
sands of dollars given by the liberal men
Of the struggling town of seven years ago
n sid of railroad enterprises, has been as
bread cast upon the waters and is now
returning with manifold increase. The
weak hearted, the doubling, the Jonahs
have never found a congenial atmosphere
surrounding this city and to-day they
STAND APPALLED,
at what the knights of progress and war
riors battling for city's supremacy have
accomplished. The past has been gath
cred into the fold of its fathers, and Fort
Worth enters upon a new era.
The confines of the city are crowded !;
business drives into the sequestered
spots, and more room for the thriving
people must be found. This having been
appareDtfor some time past number of
gentlemen have associated themselves in
| the work of providing what is wanted.
WEST FORT WORTH.
Captain Sam Evans, Major X. M. Van
| Zandt, Robert Mozart and Mrs. A. P.
| Ryan own immed iately adjoining the city
| POO acres of land, composed of rich
prairie, heavy forest and open woodland.
Four miles of the West Fork and ore and
One-half miles of the Clear Fork pa SIS
| through this magnificent body of land.
| There are now on the different surveys
! four flowing artesian wells and large
| sulphur spring, the waters Of which are
| pronounced most beneficial to health.
| The gentlemen mentioned have deter
mined to make city on this land, and to
this end have taken the work 10 hand. A
STEAM STREET CAR LINE
! is to be built from the courthouse or
some street interseCting Main street to
the extreme limit of this tract, distance
of three and one-half miles. Here it Is
proposed by Captain Evans to connect
with line passing entirely around his
! land, terminating at the head of Houston
street, the total length Of both lines to be
eight miles. Small locomotives will
draw the trains passing over this road,
and the cost Of operating will not exceed
Is cents per hour At the high land
Immediately west of the city is the resi-
dence of Major VaLIandt, and it will be
noticed by any one standing at this point
| that Seventh, Fifth aud WeatherfOrd
streets extended would converge a few
! feet beyond his residence. 1t has been
determined to open Weatherford and
! Seventh streets to this point as soon as
possible, and later on Fifth street also.
! Beginning at the junction of these streets
| GRAND BOULEVARD
is to be opened 100 feet wide and ex-
ended on an air line three miles to the
.west In the center of this boulevard
will run the csr lines, while the entire
broadway is 10 be made firm ana smooth
surface On one side will be q speeding
track q mile in length, on which the fast
thOrses of our citizens can be exercised
A long promenade OF tesselated pavement
will be on either side of this boulevard,
shaded by groves Ct tees At the end of
the boulevard overlooking a
FOREST COVERED GORGE
over 100 feet deep will be erected q pa
Wilton, with all provisions made for rest,
here the tired people from the busy city
can spend en- hour in enjoyment of the
magnificent scenery and breathe the pure
ar. on from this high land, reached by q
gentle descent, will be found Forest Park,
NATURES own handiwOrk, covering 800
acres. In this park is Horseshoe lake,
which will be magnificent body of wa
ter surrounded by trees. In another part
CT the park is
LAKE COMO,
as clear as crystal, ted from perennial
springs. The water from Sulphur Springs
| Will be brought by pipes across the river
ard turned in a grotto, bubbling up
thro Oh pure white sand This land Will
be divided into blocks 60Ox600 feet, with
twelve lots TO each block 290Xl00 feet.
ARTEsIAN WATER
will be forced by hydraulic ram to the
second story Of every house On the land.
In the West Fork, running through
this land, are stretches of never
failing 8ater thirty feet deep and
in several places boats can sail or steam
for over q mile. On Captain Evans tract,
which is nearest to the city, is situated
DUCK LAKE,
covering eight acres, and on which as
many as twenty-five ducks have b. en-
killed in day. Standing on any portion
of this land one can see the Blue Mounds
head, twenty miles away, Speers ridge,
twenty-five miles distant, and way off to
the west the Blue hills near
Weatherford, while at the base of
Vie pIdItdu IIS ulSuIy CulllNd0Sh
farms, heavy forests and also wild and.
broken country. City EugineereKing has
been busy for week running the lines
for the railroad and plating the tract,
and q force of fifteen or twenty men is
now at work in Forest Park trimming up
the trees and cutting away the under
brush. West Fort Worth will be q lovely
spot, and all the beauties of the place
have not been set forth by half in the
above.
Mr.. Mozart intends to erect at once an
elegant residence in the West End, as
will Mr.. ViCkery, st present citizen of
WaXahac0ie, but who will remove to
Fort Worth at an early day. To show
what people think of this property we
will suffice to say that in November,
1866, 1000 acres Of the tract
sold for $1,000 per acre. A few
days ago portion of this 1000 acres sold
for SIS per acre, and every foot of the
last purchase can now be sold at $3.50 per
acre. The rates on the dummy line of
cars, it is said, will be fixed at cents
each way. Martin Casey, c. J. Swasey,
Dr.. T. W. Powell, Captain F. w. Ball,
George S. Burchill, Sam Seston and
number of other well known citizens are
interesting themselves IN the park feature